www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Rex Walheimhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/rex-walheim/?utm_medium=RSS2011-07-20T18:52:08-04:00Last space shuttle aims for Thursday landing2011-07-20T10:18:12-04:00Marcia Dunnhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/20/last-space-shuttle-aims-for-thursday-landing/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) <span class="st">&mdash;</span> On the eve of NASA's historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making the final journey and the flight controllers who will guide them home said Wednesday they're starting to feel a rush of emotions.</p> <p>"You know what? I really do ...Space shuttle aims for Thursday landing2011-07-20T18:52:08-04:00http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/20/space-shuttle-aims-for-thursday-landing/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) <span class="st">&mdash;</span> On the eve of NASA's historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making the final journey completed one last task.</p> <p>They released the very last satellite to be launched from a space shuttle. It popped out of a can Wednesday: a ...Shuttle program's final 4 astronauts riding high2011-07-08T12:05:16-04:00MARCIA DUNNhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/8/shuttle-programs-final-4-astronauts-riding-high/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) - Four astronauts are taking space shuttle Atlantis for one last spin _ the very last one of the 30-year space shuttle era.</p><p>It's the smallest crew since the early shuttle flights _ usually there are six or seven. The size was necessitated by the need to ...NASA's Final 4: Fate grants them farewell flight2011-07-03T03:01:09-04:00MARCIA DUNNhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/3/nasas-final-4-fate-grants-them-farewell-flight/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) - America's longest space-flying streak ends this week with the smallest crew in decades _ three men and a woman who were in high school and college when the first space shuttle soared 30 years ago.</p><p>History will remember these final four as bookending an era that ...